Whether it’s an RPG that tells a story over dozens of hours, or a strategy game that takes months to master, games are often a considerable time investment. For many people this is central to gaming’s appeal: nowhere else in art can you find such complete worlds to lose yourself in or such stern challenges to overcome.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux is now available on Steam. If you already own the rather excellent original, it’s a free update that ports the story driven adventure to Unreal Engine 4, adds a new save system, and removes backtracking from the endgame. Small changes, but welcome ones. Find out more here.

The first-person mystery game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is out now for PS4. We reviewed the PC version last year and liked it quite a bit. The PS4 version has overhauled graphics and gameplay tweaks.

“We hated the game’s music, and then it won multiple awards” - One of five interesting details about The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter, shared by the game’s creative director on the PlayStation blog today. A version of the very good PC first-person mystery game hits PS4 on Tuesday.

Video games often strive to appear "realistic" in one way or another, but the new indie horror game The Vanishing of Ethan Cartertook things a step further verisimilitude-wise: creating many of its levels by pulling from real-world photographs.

Ethan Carter is a game about stories. It's a disarmingly personal tale, a murder mystery about childhood alienation that resonated with me in unexpected ways. And yes, it was created by a guy who is best known for making an incredibly violent first-person shooter called "Bulletstorm."

According to developer The Astronauts, horror adventure
The Vanishing of Ethan Carteris game to be played at night, alone, with the lights out. So I'm playing it in the morning with a group of Twitch friends in my brightly-lit office.

Vanishing Point: The weird horror PC game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter has been mostly been shrouded in mystery, but in today's trailer we finally get to see a bit of it in action. I remain intrigued by this game.

Imaginary locations are great places to stage heart-stopping scream sequences. Nothing like being lost inside the bowels of a giant monster, an abandoned space station or the burning plains of hell for put the fear in you. But you know what else is really scary? The real world. In particular, that abandoned 7-11 off…

The visual formula for delivering scares is pretty tried and true in most video games, movies and other entertainments: dim, obscured environments, weird, unexplained moisture and the use of light as a shock device. But these new screenshots from upcoming thriller The Vanishing of Ethan Carterlook idyllic. Like…

We've known for a little while that The Astronauts, a studio made up of former members of Bulletstorm and Painkiller studio People Can Fly, was moving beyond their action pedigree to make their new game very different. Now we've gotten a fresh taste of what it'll be, and I have to say, I'm intrigued.